How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 218: The Defective Pig with Missing Arms and Legs

The pig farm that produced the fourth escort ship was cleaner than expected.

This is Kagawa’s first impression of modern pig farms.

Just five minutes ago, Manager An Jing finished his tearful talk about how difficult it had been for the pig farm over the past 10,000 years. The market share of pork had already shrunk to the bottom 10,000 years ago, so that nearly 90% of the pork shipped was delivered to carnivores or omnivores in nature reserves. The 10% of pork circulating in the market was left to rot and stink unless someone took it back as an excuse to seek excitement.

Over the past 15,000 years, countless managers of livestock production departments have thought about getting pork out of its predicament. However, their thinking was constrained by modern food processing methods and they were unable to do anything with pork. In the end, they could only leave it alone and focus on improving beef and chicken. The improvement of pork has been stagnant.

As the chief animal husbandry officer of the fourth production escort ship of the third fleet, Chief Officer Yasui Song was also "unfortunate" to become one of the chief officers in history who hoped to improve pork.

She was now staring at Kagawa, as if hoping to see something from Kagawa's face.

Xiangchuan was not used to the overly enthusiastic attitude of Wu and Hill, but she could face the nervous and expectant look calmly. Mainly, when she was tinkering with new recipes in the kitchen at home, her family members or uncles and aunts who came to eat would look at her with such eyes. Over time, she became immune to it.

The pig pens were located on both sides of the spacious corridor, and the scene inside could be clearly seen through the transparent glass-textured isolation wall. Therefore, Kagawa discovered something was wrong.

In Kagawa's impression, the pigs in the pigsty are basically very obedient, eating and sleeping. But the pigs in this pigsty seemed very restless, nudging other pigs with their noses from time to time, or walking back and forth in the spacious pigsty. It was rare to see pigs obediently eating feed in front of the feeding bowl.

What's going on? Kagawa touched his chin in confusion. Could it be that after 30,000 years, the habits of pigs have changed? That's why pork has become unpalatable?
That’s really not a problem that can be solved by improving the recipe, right?

Kagawa sighed heavily.

Seeing her like this, the excitement on Manager An Jing's face gradually faded, and his heart was gradually shrouded in a dark cloud of loss.

That’s right. It has been 15,000 years since the dark virus crisis, and the pork problem still cannot be solved. Can it be solved by relying solely on backward ancient technology?

Maybe... I should follow the example of my predecessors and focus on studying cows and chickens. Manager An Jing stared blankly at the ceiling of the farm.
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After walking around the pigpen, Kagawa still couldn't figure out the fundamental problem. To be honest, she was almost in despair. She thought to herself that she would wait until those strong-flavored spices were mass-produced before tinkering with the pork. Anyway, if she sprinkled all kinds of spices on the pork and marinated it for a while, any fishy smell would be suppressed.

Just then, an employee came over.

"Manager An Jing, the defective products have been inspected. I would like you to come over and sign for them."

Seeing someone coming to see her, An Jing finally regained some of her demeanor as a housekeeper. She nodded and said:

"Okay, I'll be there now. I'll leave these kids in your care."

Kagawa looked at Butler Yasui curiously and asked:
"What are defective products? Generally speaking, shouldn't sick pigs with health problems be eliminated as soon as they are born?"

"That's not the defective ones." Manager An Jing explained with a smile, "Those that were disposed of at birth were genetically defective. We will raise these pigs a little bit and send them directly to the nature reserve. What we are preparing to deal with now are the defective ones that have defects due to various external factors after they have grown up."

External factors, that is, he was injured, Kagawa thought clearly.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. When she was in her hometown, she often heard the old people nearby talking about how the city was reluctant to take in cows or pigs with broken legs, so they ended up eating the food of their own family members and neighbors. Although the old people who talked about these things did not have any regretful expressions on their faces.
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In front of the defective product processing area of ​​the pig farm.

Xiangchuan looked at the pigs in front of her expressionlessly, while Ouyang Yating and the other two beside her were full of curiosity. No wonder the three of them took the initiative to ask to come and see. When they visited the cattle farm and the chicken farm before, the chief steward Axim did not mention how the defective cattle and chickens were dealt with, so the students naturally did not have the opportunity to visit. This time, they accidentally came to the pig farm and saw such a scene, which was worth it.

As expected, most of the defective pigs had broken legs and feet, and they screamed in pain. Some pigs, even with lame legs, continued to use their noses to push other pigs, causing people to fall to the ground. Therefore, it was much noisier here than in the pig sty. Employees wearing exoskeletons and AI robots maintained order and sent pigs to the cargo warehouse one by one, ready to be sent to the meat processing plant of the fourth production escort ship for feed processing.

Ouyang Yating and others were following Manager An Jing to inquire about the process and principles of feed processing. Kagawa was standing alone by the side, watching the pigs being driven onto the car with boredom.

Just then, a pig caught Kagawa's attention.

At the back of the group, there was a pig that was obviously bigger than the others, walking slowly. Unlike the other pigs, it would not use its nose to push its companions excitedly, but followed the group obediently, without making any noise or disturbance. What was even more surprising was that this pig had all four limbs intact.

Could it be a sick pig? This speculation flashed through Xiangchuan's mind, but she rejected it herself.

Just kidding, modern anti-bacteria control technology has even eliminated all the insects in the fields. The other noisy pigs are healthy except for problems with their legs and feet. There is no reason why a sick pig would suddenly appear among the adult pigs.

Xiangchuan was puzzled and finally couldn't help but stepped forward to ask:

"Manager Anjing, I want to ask, what's the situation with the big pig at the end of the team? It looks like there's nothing wrong with its limbs, and there's no wound on its neck, so why is it being disposed of? Is it being sent to a slaughterhouse... Ugh, is it being sent to a meat processing plant?"

That was a close call, I almost said it.

Manager An Jing glanced at the direction that Kagawa pointed at, and immediately locked onto the largest pig. Her expression suddenly became extremely subtle. It was obvious that she knew this pig.

"That pig does have some issues, but... this..."

Seeing the curious looks of Xiangchuan, Ouyang Yating and the other two, four pairs of eyes blinked and stared at him. Manager An Jing wanted to change the subject but it was difficult to speak. Finally, he thought that they were high school students after all, and they should have some basic knowledge, so he gritted his teeth and said:
"The pig's genitals were actually damaged. We discovered this when we were screening breeding pigs last week. We don't know when its genitals were broken. It's not cost-effective to use cloning technology to re-transplant it, so we decided to get rid of it."

Hearing the words "genitals are broken", Aino and Liang Gong both had complicated expressions, and they clamped their legs together intentionally or unintentionally. This small action naturally did not escape Kagawa's eyes. She glanced at the two of them and said:

"Be careful next time. If yours breaks, it might be sent directly to the processing plant to be used as feed."

Aino & Liang Gong & Ouyang Yating, who were standing next to each other and were forced to hear these words, said: ...Is this human language?

The wicked president of the Tongue Tip Society chuckled, turned his gaze back to the big pig, and thought: In ancient times, people would cut off their lower body parts and make eunuchs and send them inside the walls to be eunuchs. You, your lower body is mutilated and made into feed and sent inside the walls to feed wild beasts. You're as miserable as the eunuchs.

After all, the royal palaces in novels, movies and TV dramas are so chaotic that they are no different from a gathering place for jackals and ferocious beasts.

He is a eunuch and you are a castrated pig, hehe.

...Wait, castrate a pig?

Kagawa opened his eyes wide.